I'd really love to hear a general breakdown of the Wazzu/Washington relationship. I've always read about how it's cultural between the Cascade divide and all that, but I've never read much from actual fans about it.
Are there a bunch of them on the Coast? Are there many Washington people in Eastern Washington?
All I know is Mike Price had no issues in Pullman and within about a week everyone in Alabama knew he was creating on sorority girls at bars on campus. I'm guessing he didn't suddenly develop that behavior on the red eye flight over. So, they must be pretty damndd isolated. And ignored.
Some schools call their rivals a backup option for the sake of putting them down, but in this case it really is true that the one thing all the students at UW and WSU have in common is that they applied to UW. (see uwrejects.com) When boomers went to college the academic stature was more comparable but UW really took off and has been hands down a superior option for everything the two schools offer in common for decades now. This gathers failures and rare late bloomers from across the state and assembles them in Pullman. There are other state schools, like Western Washington U, which are a step down from UW academically, but can still offer you a full university experience without having to go to WSU, so this futher funnels a special type of retard to Pullman.
Spokane is a decent sized city but outside of that there is not a lot going on east of the cascades so a lot of coogs move back west (accordingly you find relatively few Huskies in Eastern Washington). WSU has tried playing football games in Seattle before to make it easier for their fans to attend games. They have a hard time filling their 35,000 capacity stadium on campus. The real passion for coogs is not any successes they achieve, which are few and far between, but rather Husky failures. They live to try and upset us in the Apple Cup. That is their one joy in life and unfortunately their pathetic, miserable lives gain the sustenance they seek occassionally.